The Spiritist Review - Journal of Psychological Studies - 1860

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

God created the human seed, scattered over the worlds like the farmer sows in the grooves the grain that must germinate and mature. God’s seeds are like molecules of fire that He blows out of the great focus, the center of life, from where God radiates His power. These molecules are to humanity what the germs of the plants are to Earth; they develop slowly, only maturing after long periods in the mother-planets, where the beginning of things is formed. I speak of the principle only. In the condition of human, the being reproduces and God’s work is done. Why are human destinies so diverse if there is a common starting point?

Why would some be born in a civilized environment and others in a savage state? What is then the origin of the demons? Let us recall the story of the spirit in its first appearance. Just formed, staggering and spluttering, the souls are nonetheless free to incline towards good or evil. The good ones separate from the bad ones from birth. Abel’s story is naively true. The ungrateful souls that have just left God’s hands persist in the crime; in the succession of centuries they make mistakes, they harm others and above all they harm themselves, until they are inexorably touched by regret. The first demons then are the guilty people. In His immense justice God only imposes suffering resulting from bad deeds. Earth should be entirely inhabited but not equally, and according to the degree of progress obtained in the earthly migrations, some are born in the great centers of civilization and others, uncertain spirits that still require initiation, are born in the remote forests. The savage state is preparatory. There is harmony in everything, and the blind and guilty soul of a demon from Earth cannot be born again in an enlightened center. There are some, however, who venture into those environments that are not theirs. It is when they cannot be in sync in that environment, that they give the spectacles of barbarism in the heart of civilization. These are the creatures from different worlds.

In the embryonic state the being has not gone through any migration yet. It cannot be studied separately because it is the origin of man.

Georges

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

The spirits are divided in several categories. In the beginning the embryos, which have no distinct faculty; which move in the air like the insects flying around a Sun light beam, pointlessly, incarnating without a choice. They turn into ignorant and rude human beings. Above them come the frivolous spirits with no evil instincts, just jester; they have fun with people, causing them silly, child-like inconveniences. They show puerile caprices and meanness.

The bad spirits are not all on the same level. Some are bonded to no one, causing little deceptions or inducing slight mistakes. The malefactors lead to wrongdoing and they enjoy that, although they may still show some level of compassion. The really wicked ones have none. All their faculties serve the purpose of wickedness. They act with calm and premeditation, pleased with the moral tortures of their doing. In the spiritual world those correspond to the criminal in yours. They get to such a condition for showing no respect for God’s laws. From downfall to downfall, centuries go by before a single thought of change crosses their minds. Evilness is their element, their cause for rejoice; forced to reincarnate they endure such sufferings that their passion for evil things wears out. They end up understanding, giving in to the voice of God that unceasingly calls to them. We have seen rebel spirits enthusiastically asking for the most terrible atonements, supporting them with the joy of the martyr. Such return to good is a motive of great happiness to the pure spirits. Jesus’s words shine truth upon the stray sheep. The errant spirits of second order are the intermediaries between the superior spirits and the mortals, since it is rare that the superior spirits communicate directly. They must be impelled by a particular circumstance. Such intermediaries are the spirits of people who bear no serious evil and whose intentions were not bad. Fewer migrations are needed to them; their assigned missions award them with faster progress when successfully accomplished. Thus the spirits eagerly desire those missions, only granted as a reward and when considered capable of accomplishing them. They are guided by superior spirits who choose their functions. The superior spirits are not all on the same level. Although free from migrations in your world they are not released from the required conditions of advancement on the more elevated spheres. There is no blank in the visible as well as invisible world. A remarkable order oversees everything. No creature is idle or useless. Everyone contributes to the perfection of the endless and boundless works of God to the limit of their faculties.

Georges

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

The wicked, selfish and obstinate spirits are given to a cruel doubt about their current and future destinies, just after death. Look around them and see no place where their negative influence may be in order, and are then taken by desperation because isolation and inaction are intolerable to the bad spirits. They dare not raise their eyes to places inhabited by pure spirits. They assess their surroundings and soon, touched by the abatement of the weak and punished spirits, charge as over a prey, armed by the memories of their past mistakes, frequently revealed in their minimum gestures. Not satisfied by that mockery, they fall upon Earth like hungry vultures, looking for those among people who will give easier access to their temptations. They seize over them, exalting greed, extinguishing their faith in God and when finally owning their consciences and see they have dominated their prey, they then extend the fatal contamination upon everything that nears their victim. The bad spirit given to rage is almost happy. He only suffers when he cannot act or when good triumphs over evil. The centuries go by though, and the bad spirit suddenly feels taken over by darkness. His circle of influence diminishes and his hitherto silent conscience makes him feel the sharp tips of regret. Inactive, swept away by the whirlwind of his regrets, he wanders around, seeing as the Scriptures says, the hair of his flesh stand up in fear. He is soon surrounded by a large sense of emptiness.

Time has come for atonement. There looms reincarnation. He sees the terrible hardships that wait, like in a mirage. He wants to step back but advances, and precipitated into the widely open chasm of life he moves on until the frightening veil of forgetfulness falls over his eyes. Born again, he lives; he acts, he is again guilty. He has an uneasy memory, like presentiments that give him the shivers but do not make him quit the evil path. Worn out and tired of crimes he is going to die.

Lying on a pallet or on a bed, who cares! The guilty person, in his apparent immobility, feels alive in a world of forgotten sensations! He sees a glimmer of light under the closed eyelids; he hears strange sounds, his soul is about to leave his body and agitates impatiently while his clenched hands try to cling to the bed sheets. He wants to speak; he wants to shout to those around him: Hold me now! I see the punishment! But he cannot.

Death falls upon the livid lips and the assistants say: he is in peace! However, he hears everything. He fluctuates around the body that he refuses to leave behind; a mysterious force attracts him. He sees and acknowledges what he had already seen. In desperation, he throws himself into space where he wants to hide. There is no place to hide. There is no rest. Other spirits pay him back for the evil he has done; he feels punished, ridiculed, confused; he errs and shall continue to err up until the day when the divine spark shines upon his hardness, enlightening him, showing him God the avenger, triumphant over evil, can only appease to the price of groans and atonements.

Georges

Observation: The fate of the wicked has never been sketched in a more eloquent, terrible and truthful way. Is it then necessary to resort to the phantasmagoria of flames and physical tortures?

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

Mars is a rough draft of the Earth and also a planet inferior to it. It is not vital for habitation but is the first incarnation of crude demons. These creatures are rudimentary with a human form null of beauty; having the same instincts as human beings without the refinement of goodness.

Driven by physical needs, their daily life consists of eating, drinking, fighting and mating. However, since God never abandons any of His creatures, in the darkness of their elemental intelligence, there lies, in a latent state, the vague consciousness of themselves, more or less developed. Such an instinct is enough to make them want to progress higher than some of the others and prepare for the emergence to a more thorough life. Theirs is a short-lived life. People, who are nothing more than matter, disappear after a short period of progress. God rejects evilness and will not tolerate that as a servant of good principles; He shortens its reign allowing resurrection as a triumph.

The soil of Mars is arid with scarce vegetation and somber foliage, never renewed by spring; one day is the same as the others, always gray. The hardly noticeable sun never brings about festivities; a monotonous passage of time, without the changes and hopes carried over by new seasons; there is no winter or summer. The shorter days are not measured in the same way and the longer nights reign sovereign. Without technology or inventions, Mars’ inhabitants spend their lives seeking food. Their crude homes, low like lairs, are repulsive with prevalence for untidiness and negligence. Women play an inferior role: more famished, they are nothing but females, barely having maternal feelings, they give birth with ease without any anguish and feed and keep the children by their side until their complete development when they are pitilessly sent away.

They are not cannibals. The only objective of their never-ending battles is the conquest of good hunting areas. They hunt in the boundless plains. Uneasy and mobile as creatures void of intelligence, they move constantly. The equity of seasons entails the same needs and the same functions all the time with little difference between the inhabitants of either hemisphere.

Death does not scare them nor hold any mysteries; it is seen as the putrefaction of the body, which they immediately burn. When someone is about to die they are abandoned and left alone. It is on the deathbed that they think for the first time. They have a vague instinct like the robin that feels the coming migratory season, feeling that it is not the end, but something unknown is about to begin. They are not intelligent enough to suppose, fear or expect, but are able to hastily calculate their defeats and victories; the number of preys which were taken down, rejoicing or saddening according to the results.

His wife (they never have one at a time, and can always be replaced at will), crouches before the doorway of the house and throws some pebbles in the air. When they form a small mound, she is ready to look inside. If the expectations are confirmed and the man is dead she comes inside showing no emotions, strips the man from the animal skins that cover him and coldly informs the neighbors, who then carry the body away and burn it as the skin barely turns cold.

The animals on the planet suffer from the human influence and are more savage and cruel than in any other place. Dogs and wolves form a single species, always fighting man in gory combats. Moreover, serving as a reflection of their human counterparts, the animals are also less diverse and lower in quantity than on the Earth. The elements show a blind wrath of chaos. A furious ocean where navigation is not possible separates the continents. The roaring winds bend trees down to the ground. The high waters flood the ingrate and sterile land. The terrain does not offer the same conditions as those found on Earth. It is cold; the volcanoes are unknown; the mountain chains are not very high, offering no beauty; their view is uninspiring for exploration; everywhere you look, there is monotony and violence; and only men without foresight who kill for survival.

Georges

OBSERVATION: To serve as transition between the image of Mars and Jupiter there is the need for an intermediary, like for example Earth, that we know sufficiently well. The observation easily tells us that we are closer to Mars than Jupiter since even amidst civilization there still are such abject creatures, lacking in humanity and feeling, living in the most absolute state of brutalization, only attending to their material needs, without ever having raised their eyes to heaven, apparently coming straight from Mars.

Jupiter is infinitely larger than the Earth and looks very different. It is embraced by a pure and brilliant light that illuminates but does not obfuscate. The trees, flowers, insects, the animals which have their starting point here, are larger and more perfected; nature is more grandiose and varied; temperature is stable and pleasing; eyes and ears are enchanted by harmony. The form of its inhabitants is like yours but embellished, perfected and purified above all. We are not subjected to the material needs of your physical nature and neither have we the consequent needs or diseases. Our souls are covered by a diaphanous wrapping, which keeps the signs of past migrations. We show ourselves to our friends as we were known to them but lit by a divine light, transfigured by our inner and always elevated feelings.

Like Earth, Jupiter is also divided in a large number of regions with different aspects, but not different climates. The different conditions are only determined by the moral superiority and intelligence; there are no master or slaves; the highest echelons are characterized by direct communications with pure spirits and by the most important functions assigned to us. Your homes cannot give you the slightest idea about ours since we don’t share the same needs. We appreciate art that has achieved a degree of perfection unknown to you. We enjoy sublime events, as we have a better understanding of the inextinguishable varieties of Creation; all harmonious varieties originating at the same starting point, perfecting in the same direction. Every noble and kind feeling of human nature is more elevated and purified and the constant desire to reach the level of the pure spirits is a noble ambition, rather than a torment, driving us to our betterment. We study constantly and with love in order to elevate ourselves to them, as the inferior spirits as well, try to reach our level. Your tiniest hatred, your petty jealousies are unknown to us. The strongest help is given to the weakest. You need the shadow of evil to understand the good in your world, you need darkness to admire light, disease to appreciate health. Those contrasts are unnecessary here since eternal light, eternal benevolence and peace bring eternal joy upon us. Here is what is most difficult for the human spirit to understand: it was ingenious to paint the torments of hell; it could never represent the joys of heavens. Why? Because since it is inferior, and having only endured sufferings and misery, it cannot foresee the celestial clarities. It can only speak of what is known, like the traveler who describes only the countries that were visited in his journey. However, as the spirit elevates and purifies, the horizon widens up and he perceives the good before his eyes, as the evil left behind will also be understood. There has already been other spirits who have tried to help you to understand, as much it is possible to your current condition, the state of the happy worlds, so as to stimulate you to follow the only path leading to them. However, there are still so many of you attached to matter that you prefer the physical joys of Earth to the pure joys reserved to those who know how to disengage from material links. May they enjoy then while they are there, for a sad turnaround awaits, perhaps still in this life! Those that we have chosen as our interpreters are the first ones to receive the light. Woe to them, especially if they do not profit from the favor that God has granted, for his justice will weigh heavily upon them!

Georges

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

Pure spirits are those who have achieved the highest degree of perfection, worthy of appearing before God. Their infinite splendor does not preclude them from being useful to God’s creation. The functions assigned to them correspond to the extension of their faculties. They are the ministers of God, under God, they govern the countless worlds; from above they guide spirits and humans, linked between one another by a boundless love, whose devotion is extended upon all creatures that they attract to become worthy of the supreme happiness. God radiates over them, transmitting His orders. They see His light and it does not blind them.

Their form is ethereal and there is nothing tangible left in them. They speak among superior spirits, to whom they share their knowledge and become infallible. In these ranks the guardian angels are chosen, who kindly lower their gaze upon mortals, entrusting them to the loving care of the superior spirits. These agents choose the course of direction for second order spirits. The pure spirits are equal, and that could not be different since only those who have achieved the highest degree of perfection belong to that category. There is equality but not uniformity, for God did not want any point of His works to be identical. The pure spirits keep their personality that has only acquired the most complete perfection, in a sense, since its starting. We are not allowed to give more details about that supreme world.

Georges

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

Let us talk about the last spirals of glory, inhabited by pure spirits. Nobody can achieve them before going through the cycles of the errant spirits. Jupiter is in the highest degree of the scale. When a spirit that has gone through the long purification stage of that planet is considered worthy of the supreme happiness, he is informed by an increased fervor; a subtle fire takes over every delicate fabric of his intelligence that apparently shines, turning visible. Stunning, transfigured, he illuminates the already radiant day before the eyes of Jupiter’s inhabitants. His brothers acknowledge the elected of God and trembling, kneel before his will. However, the selected spirit rises and the heavens, in their supreme harmony, reveal its indescribable beauties. As it rises, the spirit no longer sees things like in the errant state, similar to the concerted creation in Jupiter but now embracing all of infinity. His intelligence soars like a transfigured arrow until it reaches God, there is no fear, no disharmony, as if inside an immense hall powered by a thousands of different things. Love, in these various spirits takes on the color of their refined personalities; they recognize one another and are happy for being together. Their reflected virtues reverberating, so to speak, to the delights of God’s vision, and incessantly increasing the happiness of the elected ones. A sea of love enlarged by every tributary river, their pure strength is set in motion, like the strength of other spheres. Endowed also by the gift of ubiquity, they simultaneously embrace the minimal details of human life, from start to finish. Inexorable like light, their vision penetrates everything at the same time, and active like their driving force, they spread the Lord’s wishes. Like the bountiful wave that escapes the abundant reservoir, their universal benevolence warms up the worlds, confusing evil.

These several interpreters are already purified spirits by ministers of their power. Therefore, everything elevates, everything perfects and charity radiates upon the worlds, fed in its powerful heart. The pure spirits have by attribute everything that is good and truthful, because God is in them, the principle in itself. The poor human thought limits everything that is not reachable and does not comprehend infinity, unbounded by happiness. What is there after God? God still, always God. The traveler sees horizons succeeding horizons, one as the beginning of the next. That is how infinity unfolds incessantly. The greatest joy of the pure spirits is precisely such extension, as profound as eternity itself. One cannot describe a grace, a flame, and a beam of light. I cannot describe the pure spirits. More alive, more beautiful and more stunning than the most ethereal images, one word summarizes that being, their power and joys: Love! Fill up the space that separates Earth from the skies with that word and you still will not have but the idea of a drop in the ocean. It is only the earthly love, however limited it may be, that can give you an idea of their divine reality.

Georges

(Medium Mr. de Grand-Boulogne)

There is logic in the doctrine of reincarnation that does not escape your understanding. Since only the physical is compatible with acts of virtue and since those acts are necessary to the betterment of the spirit, the latter will barely find the necessary circumstances required to its progress above humanity in one existence only.

Considering that God’s justice is incompatible with the doctrine of the eternal penalties, reason must conclude that there is the need for:

1st – A time frame during which the spirit examines its past and make resolutions regarding the future;

2nd – A new existence, according to the current condition of that spirit. I don’t talk about the sufferings, sometimes terrible, to which certain spirits are condemned, during the period of errant state; they are, on one hand, related to the enormity of faults, and on another hand, to God’s justice. This says enough, avoiding the need for details that you shall find, as a matter of fact, in the study of the evocations. Let us go back to the reincarnations and you will understand its need through a common but very true comparison.

What happens to a young college student after one year of studies? If he has made progress he shall then advance to the next level; if he remained stationary in his ignorance, he shall be left behind. Let us go further. If his faults were serious, he is expelled. He can wander from college to college, even expelled from the University or move from a place of education to a place of correction. That is an accurate image of the fate of the spirits, and there is nothing more logical.

Would you like to perform a more in-depth study of the doctrine? It will be seen in these ideas how much more perfect God’s justice seems to be and also more in agreement with the greatest truths that dominate our intelligence. There is something so exciting about this, in general and in the details that someone who is initiated with the doctrine for the first time feels illuminated. The criticism to God’s Providence; the curse against the sufferings; the scandalous and happy addiction before the painful virtue; the premature death of the child; remarkable qualities hand in hand with an early evilness, in the heart of the same family; the born with diseases; the infinite diversity of fates of individuals as well as peoples, hitherto insoluble problems, enigmas which lead people to doubt God’s benevolence and almost doubt his existence, all that is explained at once. A pure ray of light is shed upon the horizon of the new philosophy, and every circumstance of human existence is harmoniously grouped in its generous land. Difficulties are smoothed out, problems resolved, and mysteries up until now impenetrable are broken down and explained by this simple word: reincarnation. I read your thoughts, dear Christian. You say: That is a real heresy! It is too much!

No more than the denial of the eternal penalties, my child. What is human life? The period when the spirit remains attached to the body. On the God chosen day, the Christian philosophers shall not have any difficulty in saying that life is multiple. That does not add or change anything in your duties.

The Christian moral stands and the memories of Jesus’s mission hovers upon humanity. Religion has nothing to fear regarding that teaching, and the day is not far when the ministers will open their eyes to light.

They will finally acknowledge in the new revelation the much-expected help, claimed from the end of their basilicas. They believe that society shall perish, but it will be saved.

Zenon

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

When the individual leaves behind his mortal remains, he is taken by such fear and astonishment that it makes him uncertain about his actual state; he does not know if is dead or alive, and it takes long for his very confused sensations to clear up. The spirit’s eyes are progressively amazed by the many clarities around him, leading him to a new order of things, great and unknown that he can hardly understand in the beginning but soon recognizes that he is nothing more than an intangible and immaterial creature; he seeks his vestiges, and surprise, he does not find them; some time goes by before he recovers the memory of his past, then convinced of his identity. He looks back to Earth and sees his crying relatives and friends and his inert body. The eyes finally leave Earth and seek the skies. If the will of God no longer keeps him attached to the soil, he then rises slowly and feels his body floating in space, a marvelous sensation. Then, the memory of the life he has just left behind comes with this sometimes devastating, other times consoling clarity. I speak about what I felt, and I am not a bad spirit but I don’t occupy an elevated position, unfortunately. We get rid of every earthly prejudice. Truth shines with full intensity. Nothing mitigates our faults. Nothing hides the virtues. We see our own souls as clearly as before a mirror. We seek familiar spirits because isolation is frightening, but others go by and they don’t stop. There are no affectionate relationships among errant spirits; even those who loved one another don’t exchange expressions of love; those misty forms slide and move on. Loving exchanges are reserved to the superior spirits in their interactions. As for ourselves, our transient state is only good for our advancement, and nothing should distract us from that path. The only communications allowed to us are with the humans because it is mutually useful, and prescribed by God. The bad spirits also contribute to human betterment: they serve through the trials; those who resist conquer merits. The spirits who guide people are rewarded by a substantial extenuation of their penalties. The errant spirits don’t suffer for the absence of communication among them for they know that they will meet again. Hence, their devotion is amplified so that the object of their affection is brought back to them, at the end of their trials, affections which cannot be expressed but which remain dormant. Not one bond established on Earth is broken; our sympathies will be reestablished in the order of their existence, more or less vividly, according to their intensity or intimacy.

Georges

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

The spirits can advance intellectually if they sincerely and strongly wish to do so. They have their free will, like people, and the errant state does not preclude them from using their faculties; it even helps, giving them the means of observation that they can utilize.

The bad spirits are not fatally condemned to remain evil. They can evolve but they rarely wish that since they lack discernment and find some sort of sickly pleasure out of their evil deeds. They must be violently shocked and punished in order to return to the good path because their wicked minds can only learn through punishment.

The weak spirits that take no pleasure in evil things but who don’t advance, these are restrained by their own weakness and by a kind of numbness that freezes their capabilities; they wander around; time goes by without their assessment; they couldn’t care less about what they see and take no advantage of that or even show rebellion. A certain degree of moral progress is necessary so that they can advance in the errant state. These poor spirits sometimes choose badly their trials; they particularly seek wealth in their material life, not concerned about the aftermath. These weak spirits eagerly seek reincarnation, not to depurate but to live again. The spirits who had many migrations are more experienced than the others: each life has given them a certain sum of knowledge; they saw and learned; they are less naïve than those who are closer to the starting point.

The spirits that come from Earth reincarnate back on Earth more frequently than in any other place, because the acquired experience is more applicable there. They almost never visit other worlds before or after their perfecting. Living conditions vary in each planet for the diversity of God’s work is inexhaustible. Nonetheless, the creatures who live in those worlds obey the same laws of expiation and all tend towards the same objective that is complete perfection.

Georges

(Medium Mrs. De B…)

“Let us love one another and do to others what we would have them do unto us”. The whole of religion, the whole of morals are contained in these two principles. If they were followed here on Earth we would all be perfect: no more hatred, no more hard feelings; I say even more: there would be no more poverty since the many poor people would be fed from the excesses of the tables of the rich, and you would not see in the somber neighborhoods, where I lived in my last incarnation, poor women dragging around wretched children lacking everything.

Rich! Give some thought to that. Help the unfortunate ones the best you can. Give so that God may one day return the good you did; so that when you leave the terrestrial wrapping you may one day find an entourage of thankful spirits welcoming you at the throne of a happier world.

If you could only know how happy I felt when I met above those that I was able to help in my last life! Give and love thy neighbor; love them as you would love yourself, because now you also know that God has allowed you to initiate into the Spiritist Science, that the miserable pariah may be a brother, a father, a son, a friend that you send away; and that, what a despair when you meet again in the spiritual world! I wish that you truly understand what moral charity is, that everybody can practice it; that it has no material cost but is the most difficult to practice!

Moral charity consists of supporting one another, and that is the least done in this inferior world where you are now incarnated. Hence, be charitable for you shall advance more in the path of good. Be humane and bear one another. There is great merit in knowing when to be silent so that the fool may speak and this is a form of charity; go silent when the mockery leaves the jester’s mouth; don’t notice the sarcastic smile in the mouth of those who wrongly judge themselves above you, when in the spiritual life, the only true life, they are sometimes far off; there is merit, not of humility but of charity in this because it is moral charity in not seeing others’ mistakes. There is much more merit in looking at an infirm person with compassion than throwing him your opinion with neglect. However, the image must not be taken literally because one charity does not preclude the other. Above all, do not neglect your fellow human beings. Remember what I have told you: it is always necessary to keep in mind that those you repel might very well be a spirit dear to you, temporarily situated in an inferior position.

I have met again a poor person from your Earth that I had fortunately helped a few times and to whom in turn, I must now implore for help.

Thus, be charitable; don’t scorn; let go of the words that hurt you and don’t think that charity is only the act of giving material things, but do practice also the moral charity. I repeat: practice one and the other. Remember that Jesus told us that we are brothers and always think about it, before you send the leprous or the beggar away. I shall come back to give you a longer communication since I am called back now. Good-bye. Think of those who suffer and pray.

Sister Rosalie

(Medium Mrs. Costel)

I will talk about the strange phenomenon that takes place in the meetings, whatever their character. I mean the electricity of thought, which spreads as if by magic through the brains of those less prepared to receive it. That alone could confirm magnetism to the eyes of the most incredulous. I am amazed by the coexistence of the phenomena and how they reciprocally confirm each other. You will certainly say: Spiritism explains them all, because it provides the reason for the facts up until now left to the domain of superstition. It is necessary to believe in what Spiritism teaches you since it transforms stones into diamonds, that is, it incessantly elevates the souls dedicated to its understanding, giving them patience to endure their sufferings on Earth, allowing them the glorious elevation in heaven, drawing them closer to the Creator.

I return to the starting point from which I moved a little bit away. The electricity that unites the spirit of people in an assembled meeting, allowing them to simultaneously understand the same thing, that very electricity shall one day be employed with such efficiency among people as it is in the communications at a distance. I reveal to you this idea that I will develop one day because it is very prolific. Keep the serenity in your works and count on the benevolence of the good spirits that assist you.

I will complete my thought that was unfinished in my previous communication. I was speaking about the electricity of thought and I told you that one day it would be used like its sister, the physical electricity is used. In fact, when in a meeting, people release the fluids that transmit the minimal impressions to them, with the speed of light. Why hasn’t such a means been used, for example, to discover a criminal or to make the masses understand the truths of religion or Spiritism? In the great criminal or political trials the audience of the judicial dramas could detect the magnetic current that progressively forces those very people more interested in hiding their thoughts to reveal it or even accuse themselves, since they no longer can withstand the electrical pressure that would irrespectively produce the truth, not out of their consciousness, but of their hearts. Apart from those strong emotions, the same phenomenon happens with intellectual ideas, transmitted from the brain to brain. The means then have already been found. It is necessary to apply it: to gather in the same center, people of conviction, or educated people, and bring together the contrast of ignorance or vice. Such experiments must be carried out with awareness and are more important than debates about words.

Delphine de Girardin

(Medium Mr. Didier Jr.)

There should be two very distinct fields on Earth: on one side those who openly do the good things and on the other, those who openly do bad things. No, however! The human being is not honest not even when it comes to bad things, since it affects virtue! Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy! Powerful goddess! How many tyrants have you created? How many idols to adore!

The human being’s heart is very strange really since it can beat in death, as it can apparently love honor, virtue, truth and charity! The human being bows daily before those virtues and daily fails his word, neglecting the poor Christ. He is a constant lying hypocrite.

How many people seem honest, because their appearance is often deceiving! Christ called them whitewashed tombs, which are rotten inside but shinny outside. Man! You truly seem like that house of death, and while your heart is dead Jesus shall not inspire you, Jesus, that divine light that does not illuminate the exterior but that brings clarity to the interior.

Hypocrisy, understand this well, is the vice of your time. And you wish to become great by hypocrisy! In the name of freedom you become greater; in the name of morale you become more brutal; in the name of truth, you lie.

Lamennais